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MACDONALD: Biden’s HHS Hid COVID Booster Stroke Risk

April 15, 2026 Steve MacDonald

Not much surprises anymore, which is not as bad as it seems. It is not that I can’t find wonder, amazement, joy, or disdain in the crossing of Rubicons; it just doesn’t change my blood pressure. Not at all. Oh, look, an Investigation revealed internal evidence that HHS “hired Lukos LLC, a private firm, to … Read more

KLAR: Tests Revealed Dangerous Toxins in Military Meals

February 22, 2026 John Klar

Thanks to HHS Secretary Kennedy, Help Is on the Way. Recent laboratory tests of military meals, and Meals Ready to Eat (MREs), revealed high levels of pesticides, heavy metals, and livestock drug residues within the food. America’s troops deserve better. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is making sure that happens. The … Read more

KLAR: Can MAHA Fix The Organic Food Conundrum?

February 16, 2026 John Klar

The Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement continues to gain both policy and political momentum as the 2026 midterms loom. The Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement continues to gain both policy and political momentum as the 2026 midterms loom. By delivering on 2024 campaign promises to improve nutrition and support rural farms, the Republican … Read more

Does This Mean Planned Parenthood Is Breaking the Law?

March 26, 2025 Steve MacDonald

Planned Parenthood (PP) does a few things well. It ends pregnancies and chases taxpayer dollars. The organization overpays executives, dumps obscene sums into lobbying to get more tax dollars, and runs as a non-profit NGO that pays no taxes. And it complains about funding. In recent years, it jumped on the drug-our-children-train, offering gender services … Read more

Using Medicalization to Suppress the Exercise of First Amendment Rights

March 22, 2025 Adam Dick

A repugnant tactic of authoritarianism is categorizing people’s desire for or exercise of freedom as illness that government should suppress. An example of this was the deeming of dissidents in the Soviet Union as mentally ill to justify their detention and punishment. In America, there has long been resistance against an effort to similarly have the United … Read more

Kennedy Sizes Up FDA Conflicts of Interest

March 14, 2025 John Klar

Closing the revolving regulatory door on Big Pharma “family” user fees. Americans have become more distrustful of federal agencies in recent years, including “vaccine hesitancy” because of alleged misinformation about the safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has criticized HHS and other federal agencies for “regulatory capture” by corporate interests that … Read more

HHS is Opposing Experimental Bird Flu ‘Vaccines’ for Poultry

March 14, 2025 Adam Dick

USDA Seems Supportive. Last week, I wrote about experimental “vaccines” that the United States government has been working with pharmaceutical companies to develop — different ones for poultry and people. I asked if Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Brooke Rollins, both new to their … Read more

Build Back Better…Abortions!

July 1, 2022 Steve MacDonald

Mt. Abortion is the hill the Dems have decided to die on, or was it Mt. Transgender? Mt. No More Fossil Fuels? Mt. Record Inflation. Mt. Disarm the law-abiding. Mt. Crappy Economy. There’s a range of them, and abortion is the most recent (again), and it’s killing babies or bust.

From Steve Kirsch: An Open Letter to Christi Grimm, Inspector General of the HHS

April 20, 2022April 20, 2022 Op-Ed

Dear Inspector General Grimm,

There is overwhelming evidence of an enormous amount of corruption at the highest levels of the CDC, FDA, and NIH. These activities are aimed at both:

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Airline Pilots Sue Feds to Drop Mask Mandates on Commercial Flights

March 26, 2022March 26, 2022 Steve MacDonald

On March 15th, the US Senate passed a measure ending the Transportation Mask Mandate. You would be able to free your face during commercial flights. But the Buden White House said it would veto it.

Vaccine Mandate Rulings – The Supreme Court Decides to Split the Constitutional Baby

January 14, 2022 Kevin Scully

I believe most people are familiar with the Biblical tale of Solomon, the king, almost as wise as Joe Biden, solving the problem of who was the actual mother of a contested child.

ICYMI – Sen. Rand Paul Leaves Scorch Marks All Over Biden’s “Health” Sec., Xavier Becerra

December 28, 2021December 28, 2021 Steve MacDonald

This hit Rumble on Dec 24th and I wish I’d seen it then. Talk about a Christmas Miracle. Sen. Rand Paul torches HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra in two minutes of “Must Watch TV.”

ACTION ALERT: Last Chance to Stop the $22M COVID DATABASE Federal Grant

November 19, 2021November 18, 2021 Ken Eyring

The NH Executive Council (EC) rejected a $22M federal grant with a 4-1 vote on October 13, 2021. The purpose of the grant was to implement a federal program to track and manage the COVID-19 vaccine status of every NH resident.

The grant money is for a statewide database that will be managed by NH under the direction of the federal HHS (see contract language below). The collected data will be used by NH to implement the state’s COVID-19 vaccine management system. The data will also be shared with the federal government (see contract language below) and combined with the data from every other state, thereby creating a national COVID-19 vaccine tracking database.

New Hampshire Doesn’t Need HHS Money, nor the Conditions That Come with It.

October 7, 2021 Op-Ed

As I’m certain you’re aware the Rebuild NH leadership team and their organization has done a fabulous job of organizing many of us Granite Staters to ensure that our Governor and our Executive Counselors know, in no uncertain terms, that we oppose them taking the $27 million grant offered by HHS.

President Trump Puts His “Money Where His Mouth Is”

March 5, 2020

Have you ever told an obnoxious loudmouth to “Put your money where your mouth is?” Probably most of us have at one point or another. Well, President Trump has. He makes a quarterly donation of his entire presidential salary. This is the first time any President has made this gesture.

Tossing the Elderly Under the Bus

July 15, 2024February 5, 2015 Steve MacDonald

We are reaping the “benefits” of expanding Medicaid as “unexpected” cost overruns just a few months in require $58 Million in cuts to the Health and Human Services Budget. The Democrat governor is cutting funding to nursing homes and mental health patients and the Democrat party is calling these cuts ‘Responsible.’

Hassan-a-Saurous Bugetus Excalmitous Ignoramus Overexaggeratus

September 26, 2018June 3, 2013 Steve MacDonald

Chess Move

Grant Bosse has a great piece over at NH Watchdog that addresses the hyperbole of New Hampshire Governor Maggie Hassan on the state budget and its priorities. Hassan has decided to ignore the striking similarities between her budget, the House version, and the Senate version, and has instead chosen to release her talking points to the professional left so they will be equipped to shout down anyone who dares point out the obvious.

Quoting Grant…

My colleague Joshua-Elliott Traficante at the Josiah Bartlett Center finds that the governor’s budget, the House budget, and the budget up for debate by the full Senate this week have nearly identical priorities for the critical areas that Hassan claims are at risk.

HHS Gets Coal in Its Stocking

September 26, 2018December 5, 2012 Steve MacDonald

Democrats insisted that business owners not only had to provide insurance (or get fined) but that the insurance had to cover contraception and abortion (day after) pills, even after Bart Stupak voted yes! claiming…”There will be no public funding for abortion in this legislation. We’ve all stood on principle.” That would be the principle of believe the lie to get them to leave you alone, or if you are the other side, lie until you get what you want.

The Federal Department of Health and (in)Human services has since dutifully complied and made “The Mandate” part and parcel with the Patient Affordable are Act. So when a business owner in Missouri filed a suit claiming that the mandate violated his religious rights the court had to answer the question–can the government make laws that force you to act in direct contradiction to your religious beliefs under threat of penalty?

S’Preme Court Revives Challenge To Obama Care…

September 26, 2018November 27, 2012 Steve MacDonald

…on religious grounds.

S’Preme credit first to Hot Air, whose title I have assumed as my own. And second, how about a do-over?

Liberty University had challenged the law on religious grounds courtesy of the insurance mandate itself, the HHS’ contraceptive mandate, and the retarded left-wing notion that the government can prohibit any and every exercise of religious expression the moment it steps outside the four walls of the place of worship.

SCOTUS overturned a lower courts dismissal of that case –giving it new life

Get “Used” To This…

September 26, 2018September 8, 2012 Steve MacDonald

Politicians run around like chicken little screaming “the sky is falling.” They do this until they get what they want. In this instance, government run healthcare was going to save people’s lives. It was going to mandate free stuff, like say, mammograms. Free mammograms. Mammograms save lives. At least they did before the government handed off the responsibility for managing the cost of them to an unelected board of bureaucrats.

Now, that thing the government said you needed every year or two after the age of forty…you don’t need that anymore, and guess what–you can’t have one.